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Cut the Rope: Time Travel teased, is ‘almost here’

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 27, 2019

UK-based developer ZeptoLab really hit the bull's eye with the main premise behind its adorable iOS puzzler dubbed Cut the Rope. In case you've been living under a rock, your objective is to feed candy to a little green monster named Om Nom while collecting stars.

Since making its debut in October 2010, Cut the Rope, a BAFTA winner, has been downloaded more than a hundred million times across various platforms.

Taking the franchise to the next level, ZeptoLab has just posted a teaser video announcing a sequel titled Cut the Rope: Time Travel...

Set intervals for the Reminders app with RemindMeAgain

Jeff Benjamin ∙ April 11, 2013

A new tweak was just submitted to the Cydia store today, and it is called RemindMeAgain. As its name alludes to, RemindMeAgain works with the Reminders app to provide you with Reminders for tasks at preset intervals. RemindMeAgain will continue to bug you at the interval you set, until the task is checked as being complete.

Take a look inside for a brief look at the tweak...

Bump update breaks iTunes sharing at Apple’s (music biz’s?) request

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

If you use Bump, a cross-platform app for sharing photos, contacts, music and more between different devices, you may want to pass on today's update as it's removed the handy ability to share songs from your iTunes library.

"We're sorry, but we are no longer permitted access to iTunes audio files on the device," release notes accompanying the download read. In removing access to iTunes audio files in the file sharing section, Bump didn't just appease to Apple, it's also a little less useful now...

Messages: a compromise between biteSMS and the stock Messages app

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 11, 2018

If you already listened to our latest episode of Let's Talk Jailbreak, then you know that Sebastien and I discussed jailbreak tweaks for the Messages app. We talked about biteSMS, Messages+, iRealSMS, and the like. We talked about these tweaks as we discussed the validity of a new tweak, simply called Messages, and whether or not it was worth the investment.

At the time, neither of us had really put any hands-on time into the tweak, although Cody has given it a shot and seemed to like it. On the show, I promised that I would check out the tweak and provide my two cents, and that's just what I did today.

Technical challenges delaying iPhone 5S, budget iPhone, iPad mini 2?

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 26, 2016

KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who actually has a pretty good track record in predicting Apple's product plans, has some bad news for Apple fans. In a note issued to clients Thursday, he basically wrote that Apple's next batch of iDevice upgrades may hit the market later than originally expected due to a number of "technical challenges" related to the inclusion of fingerprint sensor beneath the Home button.

The rumored budget iPhone may be delayed because its slimmer-than-usual polycarbonate casing is proving harder nut to crack, while the second-generation iPad mini continues to face challenges with its high-resolution Retina panels. Jump past the fold for the full disclosure...

How to add an animated clock to Notification Center

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 11, 2018

Flip Clock is a jailbreak widget that allows you to add an animated flipping clock to Notification Center. The tweak features a nice helping of options to configure the look and feel of the clock to your personal liking.

Once Flip Clock is installed, simply enable it in Settings > Notifications in order to display it within your Notification Center. The tweak also works with packages like LockInfo for placing the widget in more places than just the Notification Center panel. Check out a few more tidbits about this great looking jailbreak tweak after the break...

Badger beta updated with support for all apps and more

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 11, 2018

Badger — the highly anticipated jailbreak tweak that let's you view notifications right on the Home screen — has been updated. The tweak, still in beta, continues to receive incremental updates as it inches closer to a public release.

In our very first look at the tweak, Badger was extremely limited, only allowing users to view notifications for the Messages app. After the recent updates, Badger now allows users to view notifications for every app installed on the device, and more.

Filippo Bigarella donates over $5,000 from proceeds of his jailbreak tweak LivelyIcons to charities

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated May 16, 2016

Back in mid February, we brought you coverage on a jailbreak tweak called LivelyIcons. It was a tweak, created by Filippo Bigarella, that let you have animated app icons on your Home screen. The animations were nice, but the big news about LivelyIcons' was Bigarella's promise to donate some of the proceeds to cancer research.

To be honest, I had almost forgotten about the tweak until Bigarella sent out a tweet today updating the progress of the earnings and donations. Judging by the numbers, it looks as if LivelyIcons was a huge success. Check inside for the details...

QuickShoot Pro: a great way to quickly snap photos and videos

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 11, 2018

Have you ever missed an ideal snapshot as you waited for the Camera app's animation and UI to finish loading? I think it's safe to say that all of us have missed a perfect photo as a result of having to wait on the iPhone's Camera app. Things have gotten considerably better in this regard as hardware speeds have improved, but it's still not exactly perfect.

QuickShoot Pro is a jailbreak tweak that seeks out to solve the issue by letting you snap photos and videos directly from the Home screen. It accomplishes this feat using a couple of different methods. The first method requires you to double tap on the Camera app icon for a photo, and a triple tap on the app icon for video. By doing this, a photo or video is taken without the Camera UI, hence resulting in a faster composition.

The second method is a simple Activator gesture. You can setup an Activator gesture for taking a photo or starting a new video. QuickShoot Pro features quite a few options that can be used to configure the tweak to your needs and liking. It's not going to completely reduce the wait time associated with taking a new photo, but it's certainly faster than the stock method for taking photos and videos. Take a look inside as we break down QuickShoot Pro in our hands on video walkthrough...

Addial allows you to add contacts and dial numbers straight from Notification Center

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 11, 2018

Addial (pronounced ad-yal) is a recently released tweak that allows you to add a new contact or dial a phone number directly from Notification Center. Its design is much in the same style as the stock iOS "tap to" widgets, like Facebook, and Twitter, so it fits right into Notification Center without standing out like a sore thumb.

Gameloft’s free to play Dungeon Hunter 4 hits iOS

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated May 16, 2018

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxAw-0lxH28

French publisher Gameloft, one of the most prolific iOS games publishers, has joined Electronic Arts in offering latest triple-A titles for free, a major shift in strategy in recognition of the free-to-play concept. Today, Gameloft's Dungeon Hunter 4, a major new release, has hit the App Store as a free download.

The Diablo-like title is classes as a role-playing game set in the land of Valenthia and you're tasked with saving the mortal realms from darkness. It includes the usual assortment of potions, daggers, swords, monsters and character classes such as Sentinels, Imps (compared in savagery to a wolverine) and what not...

I’m sorry Verizon CEO, but you didn’t talk Steve Jobs into bringing LTE to the iPhone

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 11, 2013

Apple has long been criticized for not making an LTE iPhone at a time when most Android handsets boasted high-speed cellular networking capability. Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam has come out of the woodwork to take credit for personally persuading Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs to add LTE connectivity to the popular smartphone.

He also shared interesting stats regarding the technology, saying that half of all wireless traffic on Verizon's network is now related to video content. McAdam remarks he's expecting that video will comprise two-thirds of all wireless traffic on the Verizon network by 2017, thanks to the company's capital expenditure in deploying LTE technology. As for his comment regarding an LTE iPhone, I'm not buying it and here's why...